Health & Beauty

A BBC documentary to be screened this autumn will give an eye-opening insight into what sexual health staff in Exeter deal with on a daily basis.

Staff from the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust are appearing in the second series of Unsafe Sex in the City, which starts tonight (Wednesday 2 October) at 9pm.

The fly-on-the-wall documentary follows doctors, nurses and other staff from the GU medicine and sexual health clinic in Sidwell Street and focuses on how they are tackling sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people.

The programme, on BBC Three,...

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged to take action to support the 800,000 people living with dementia across the UK. Neil Parish joined 200 other MPs and representatives from Alzheimer’s Society in Portcullis House, Westminster on Tuesday 10th September to provide a handwritten statement of the action they will take to support people with dementia and their carers. Neil Parish pledged to help tackle the stigma attached to dementia and raise awareness to improve diagnosis rates in their constituency. Neil Parish said: “Devon is a beautiful county and many elderly people...

Would you be willing to tell us about your experience? We are looking for people to take part in research to understand their experience of having a suspected medicine reaction. We have had a good response to date and should like to contact some more people before we close this study at the end of June.

You can help by taking part in an interview. We are looking for people aged 18 and above to discuss with us their experience of having a suspected medicine reaction. This reaction may have happened either while taking the medicine or after stopping it and should have been recent,...

Stoptober – the 28-day stop smoking challenge which last year saw over a thousand people in Devon complete the challenge, is set to return this October, and Devon County Council’s public health team is marking the national campaign with a range of support for those trying to quit.

Smoking remains the nation’s biggest killer with half of long-term smokers dying prematurely from a smoking disease.

New research shows that people who quit smoking for Stoptober, and don’t smoke again, could gain an extra week of life, every 28 days, for the rest of their life. And anyone who...